investment team. Mike is also active in the Twin Cities community as a member of the board of directors of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. An alumnus of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Mike is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves, where he serves as a military advisor at the Pentagon for an undersecretary of defense. He resides in the Minneapolis area. • Also in August, Matthew F. McManus, MBA’92, was appointed president and CEO of PrimeraDx, where he also joined the board of directors. He was previously head of Cleveland Clinic Laboratories and COO of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute. Matthew holds MD and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. • Mike Byrnes, MBA’00, is president of Byrnes Consulting, which provides business planning and marketing strategy consulting services to help companies become more successful. He and his wife, Erika, welcomed their first baby, Catherine Elizabeth Byrnes, in November 2009. • We regret to report that Kenneth K. King Jr., MBA’81, of Bradenton, FL, passed away in July after a long struggle with diabetes complications. He is survived by his wife, two children, two siblings, and seven grandchildren. Ken, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, was a distinguished business executive and a lifelong member and officer of churches in Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, and Florida.
connell school nursing.alums@bc.edu Cushing Hall, Room 201 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Paul Arnstein, PhD’97, is the director of MGH Cares about Pain Relief and a clinical nurse specialist for pain relief at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published a book, titled Clinical Coach for Effective Pain Management (FA Davis, 2010), to help nurses better understand the principles of safe, effective pain treatment. Designed to be a pocket guide for instant, easy access to a consultant, it is part of a series that addresses the five areas of practice that nurses find most challenging to master.
Read details about the book at: www.sunypress.edu/p-5060-being-and-time.aspx. • John Mark Fullmer, MA’06, of Fullerton, CA, has joined the Peace Corps. In August, he traveled to the Philippines, where he began preservice training as a volunteer teaching English. After spending three months with a host family there, acquiring the language and cultural skills necessary to assist his community, he will serve for two years in the Philippines. John is an alumnus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he earned a BA in music in 2002. A published author, he also worked as a writing instructor at Chapman University, Fullerton College, and Irvine Valley College. • Daniel Kabala, MA’07, was recently named an associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society, having successfully completed a series of exams demonstrating comprehensive understanding of the business of property and casualty insurance. Daniel is a senior actuarial analyst at Liberty Mutual Group. • Former president of Newton College of the Sacred Heart Gabrielle A. Husson, RSCJ, MA’51, died on June 30 at the age of 99. Sr. Husson entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1929 and pronounced her final vows at the Mother House in Rome in 1938, having already begun her ministry in education in 1932 at Newton Country Day School, where she served as mistress general. Upon her retirement from Newton College, Sr. Husson moved to Washington DC as superior for the Apostolic Center for retired religious of the Sacred Heart, and in 2008, she joined the RSCJ community at Teresian House. She is survived by her half-brother, Christopher Husson’65, of Pittsfield. Much loved and respected by all who knew her, Sr. Husson will be greatly missed.
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In June, Qualidigm CEO Marcia K. Petrillo, MA’69, was named a finalist Nonprofit Executive of the Year by the Hartford Business Journal at its annual Nonprofit Heroes Awards ceremony, held at the Connecticut Convention Center. Marcia, who has led Qualidigm and its predecessor organization for 35 years, was recognized for her pioneering work in the field of healthcare improvement. Marcia resides with her husband, Charles, in Bloomfield. • Dennis Schmidt, PhD’81, a liberal arts research professor of philosophy, comparative literature, and German at Pennsylvania State University, recently collaborated with SUNY Press on the book Being and Time: A Revised Edition of the Stambaugh Translation.
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School in Shirley. Previously, she was a guidance counselor and the principal designee at Byam Elementary School in Chelmsford. Patricia has also been a teacher and a business woman. She owned and operated an outplacement counseling firm in Chestnut Hill for 12 years. • Cheryl A. Barnard, MA’87, has recently been named to the board of trustees of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Hartford. Currently the VP and dean of student affairs at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, since 2007 Cheryl has served as a senior administrator at SJC, overseeing the offices of residential life, campus ministry, career development, community outreach and partnerships, diversity initiatives, student activities, counseling, disability services, and health services. Cheryl also volunteers as the Connecticut state director for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. She lives in West Simsbury with her husband and two children. • Maryellen Spellman Iannibelli, MEd’01, has been appointed to the newly created position of principal of Georgetown Middle School. Maryellen previously served as assistant principal at Doherty Middle School in Andover. • Nancy Yake Kerr, PhD’06, is a professor and program director of the Media Communication program at Champlain College in Burlington, VT. She is also the owner of Spinnaker Communications, a firm specializing in PR for nonprofit organizations. Nancy resides in Shelburne.
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wcas/wgsas Correspondent: Jane T. Crimlisk ’74 janecrimlisk@yahoo.com 37 Leominster Road Dedham, MA 02026; 781-326-0290 Fred Bryson ’77 happily reports that his granddaughter Kaitlyn Mulcahy, who has been attending Framingham State and doing very well, has recently transferred to the Woods College of Advancing Studies at BC. • Richard Reilly, MS’03, has been appointed chairman of the Massachusetts Joint Labor Management Committee for municipal police and fire. The appointment was made by Governor Duval Patrick on July 29, 2010, for a period of three years. The committee exercises oversight responsibility for all collective bargaining negotiations between municipal police officers or firefighters and municipalities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Congratulations, Rich, on your appointment!